i 



144 LXXV. RUBIACEJ3. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ixora. 



brachiate sessile or peduncled, flowers all pedicelled, calyx-teetli minute 

 triangular, corolla glabrous, mouth naked. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, in beach jungles, Heifer, Kurz ; NICOBAR ISLANDS, Kurz. 



Possibly a form of 1. grandifolia, but the leaves are of a very different shape, 

 almost or altogether sessile, very-opaque, 5-8 by 3-4 in., with very slender nerves 

 and the veins not raised, margins often undulate ; stipules broad, ciisps short. Cymes 

 ebracteate even in bud; ramifications inarticulate; fully formed flowers not seen. 

 Fruits globose, size of a small pea ; pedicel sometimes - in., slender. 



21. I. jucunda, Thw. Enum. 155, excl. var. y (not of Sot. Mag.} ; cymes 

 puberulous, leaves lanceolate oblong elliptic or oblanceolate obtuse or obtusely 

 .acuminate narrowed into a short petiole, stipules very short mucronate or 

 shortly cuspidate, cymes sessile coryinbiform usually with many branches from 

 the base, bracts or bracteoles minute or obsolete, flowers pedicelled, calyx-teeth 

 minute obtuse, corolla white glabrous, tube 1-lj in., lobes ovate acute, mouth 

 naked. Pavetta Wyckii, Hassh. JRetz. i. 21, ex. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 149. 



CEYLON ; common, ascending to 4000 ft., Walker, &c. 



This again is very near I. grandifolia, but the leaves are narrower and never so 

 urge as they "become in that plant, usually 4-5 by li-2 in., but sometimes 6-8 by 

 i in., base rarely rounded, membranous or coriaceous, stipules much shorter, 

 ramifications of cyme inarticulate and corolla-lobes acute,, fruit the same, flowers 

 . 



**"'+ i\Br<-. < -hes tomentose or pubescent. Cymes articulate at the ramification*. 



..'I', I. villosa, Roxl. Hort. Beny. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 3S3 ; branches short, 



;s anu cymes pubescent or tomentose, leaves large elliptic-oblong lanceo- 



iceolats. caudate-acuminate, base narrowed or rounded, stipules with 



Dreading filiform points, cymes peduncled, branches long brachiate, 



flowers white, calyx-teeth short, corolla glabrous, tube 1 in. very slender. DC. 



Prodr. iv. 488 ; Wight Ic. t. 150 ; Kurz Far. Fl. ii. 21 ; Wall. Cat. 6137. 



SI^KLM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. ; ASSAM, the IHASIA Mxs., SILHET, CACHAB, PEGU, and 

 PENANG; TFa^W?., &c. 



Shrubby. Leaves 6-16 by 2^-5^ in., very variable in shape, brown when dry, 

 thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath pubescent chiefly on the 10-12 pair of 

 nerves or glabrate ; petiole ^- in. ; stipules |-1 in., tomentose. Peduncle stout, 

 2-4 in. ; cymes and ramifications hardly articulate ; lower bracts often leafy, tipper 

 inear-subulate ; flowersf crowded, fragrant, shortly pedicelled. Corolla-lobes oblong, 

 notched. Filaments subulate ; anthers slender. Style-arms slender, free or connate. 

 Fruit size of a pea, smooth, red. Seeds concave ventrally, with a median ridge (in' 

 Roxburgh's figure). After flowering the calyx-teeth sometimes exceed the tube, when 

 the latter does not swell and form fruit. 



23. 1. cuneifolia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10; .Fl. Ind. i. 380; braiiclus 

 short, petioles and cymes pubescent or puberulous, leaves lanceolate or ob^onir- 

 or elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolato obtusely acuminate coriaceous base acute, 

 stipules with short filiform cusps, cymes sessile or short-peduncled brachiate, 

 branches short, calyx-teeth equalling or shorter than the ovary, corolla glabrous, 

 tube |- in. very slender, mouth naked. DC. Prodr. iv. 487 ; W. '8? A. Prodr. 

 428; Wt. Ic. t. 709; Wall.' Cat. 6140; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 21 ; Bot. Reg. t. 648. 

 I. puberula, Wall. Cat. 6145, excl. c. I. rosea, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., cd. 

 Carey $ Wall. i. 398 (not of Wall. Cat.} ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 540. Pavetta 

 Ackeringse, Teysm. $ Binn.Jide Kurz. 



SILHET, De Silva; Piou, TENASSEEIM, and MARTABAN, M'Cleltand, Kwg>~ Griffith 

 <Kew Eistrib. 2095). 



